Dr Talvinder S.
Sihra

Talvinder S.
Sihra was born in Nairobi on 17th July 1960. He moved
with his family to the UK in 1967 and grew up in East
London. He left London in 1979 to read Biochemistry and
Physiology at the University of Sheffield and obtained
his batchelors degree in 1982. He then moved to the
Department of Biochemistry at University of Dundee to
study for his doctorate with Professor David G. Nicholls.
After obtaining his PhD in 1985, he continued for one
year in Dundee as a postdoctoral assistant before moving
to the USA as postdoctoral associate in the Laboratory of
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at the Rockefeller
University (New York) with Professor Paul Greengard. In
1990 he returned to the University of Dundee with an MRC
Fellowship for three years and moved back to London to
the Department of Pharmacology, Royal Free Hospital
School of Medicine, as a Wellcome Trust Lecturer in 1993.
In April 1997 he relocated to the Pharmacology Department
at UCL where he is now a Senior Lecturer. He is married
to Jasmina N. Jovanovic with whom he has a one daughter
Anya Lakini. Jasmina, Anya and Talvinder live in East
Barnet, Herts.